Word: attempted
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...women to take oral contraceptives or to force men to take drugs that lessen their sexual drive. "There are judges out there who will try to use Norplant," says Caplan. Others worry that some developing countries will force the contraceptive on women without their full consent in a misguided attempt to keep population growth down...
...American lives before domestic support collapsed. The Iraq crisis is only 4 1/ 2 months old, and there has not been a single U.S. combat death. Yet some sectors of the home front are already in the throes of a full-scale antiwar movement. Bush's attempt to fill the conceptual vacuum left by the end of the cold war with talk about a new world order apparently works better in the United Nations than in the United States...
Further, the posters, in their context, attempt to create a parallel between Harvard University and the Palestinian universities and the West Bank. This attempt is perhaps the most ridiculous aspect of all to the posters. Quite simply, this parallel is nonexistent...
...final round of negotiations on revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 30,000 European and Japanese farmers marched through clouds of tear gas in the city center, destroying property and brandishing placards opposing cuts in agricultural subsidies. The farmers' fury helped torpedo the GATT's four-year attempt to set new guidelines for nearly $4 trillion in global commerce. The effort collapsed on Friday when the European Community refused to meet demands by the U.S. and other major food exporters to cut farm aid more than...
...stunned Wall Street last week by proposing the biggest acquisition in the brief history of the computer industry, offering to buy Dayton-based computer maker NCR for $6 billion. When NCR rejected the initial, friendly offer, its suitor shocked the business world once more by launching a hostile takeover attempt. In a face- to-face showdown with AT&T's board members in New York City, NCR management vowed to resist. But industry analysts generally believe that the big telecommunications firm will ultimately prevail, strengthening NCR in the long run. Says Maria Lewis of Shearson Lehman Bros.: "AT&T would...